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Bulimia

"Bulimia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Eating an excess amount of food in a short period of time, as seen in the disorder of BULIMIA NERVOSA. It is caused by an abnormal craving for food, or insatiable hunger also known as "ox hunger".


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Bulimia" by people in this website by year, and whether "Bulimia" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 123 publications over 30 distinct years, with a maximum of 10 publications in 2002
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